China’s Foreign Investment Legal Regime: Toward China’s Development Goals

China’s foreign investment legal regime encompasses domestic laws governing inward and outward investments, investment treaties and the Belt and Road Initiative. Can China’s foreign investment legal regime lead its two-way investments towards the country’s five development goals (building technological capacity, deepening integration into the global economy, promoting green development, protecting security, and participating in global economic governance and rule-making)? This presentation aims at addressing this question, by discussing the progress toward the development goals made by the legal regime, and the obstacles that can dilute such efforts.

About the speaker

Yawen Zheng is a postdoctoral fellow of investment law and policy at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. Her research interests include investment law, energy law, and climate change. She obtained her PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh in 2021, an LLM in international law from the University College London in 2015, and an LLB in 2014 from the Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her monograph China’s Foreign Investment Legal Regime was published by Brill in January 2023, and her other work has appeared in journals including the Journal of World Investment and Trade.

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